variant_cmp

Description

This function will only compare scalar values, not arrays or variant records.

Parameters

left

The left operand.

right

The right operand.

lcid

A valid Locale Identifier to use when comparing strings (this affects
string collation).

flags

flags can be one or more of the following values
OR'd together, and affects string comparisons:

Variant Comparision Flags

value

meaning

NORM_IGNORECASE

Compare case insensitively

NORM_IGNORENONSPACE

Ignore nonspacing characters

NORM_IGNORESYMBOLS

Ignore symbols

NORM_IGNOREWIDTH

Ignore string width

NORM_IGNOREKANATYPE

Ignore Kana type

NORM_IGNOREKASHIDA

Ignore Arabic kashida characters

Note:

As with all the variant arithmetic functions, the parameters for this function
can be either a PHP native type (integer, string, floating point, boolean or
NULL), or an instance of a COM, VARIANT or DOTNET class. PHP native types
will be converted to variants using the same rules as found in the constructor
for the VARIANT class. COM and DOTNET objects
will have the value of their default property taken and used as the variant value.

The variant arithmetic functions are wrappers around the similarly named
functions in the COM library; for more information on these functions, consult
the MSDN library. The PHP functions are named slightly differently; for example
variant_add() in PHP corresponds to VarAdd()
in the MSDN documentation.